for whomever asked about the hawk 5sps, they are fine for more than that, Martyn J ran 580 something hp on his 5sp for a good while and that was drag racing and launching etc

 

Do you have a contact email for this guy? im looking to get a billet twinscroll for mine soon, but i have a few questions first

 

[QUOTE=Legacyb4-Dan;11164483]Do you have a contact email for this guy?

Would like this also as seriously debating getting ones of these 18g's

Harri

 

The guy I was speaking to was Bruce

service@kinugawaturbo.com

Very helpful

 

I sent them a mail hopefully, ill hear back tomorrow, the twinscroll variant on their site has a 10cm turbine housing, which i thought was very big, would that make it laggy as hell?

 

So my TD05 18G arrived a few days ago.







Looks like excellent quality and came with a very good fitting kit with everything you could need. Icant wait to get it fitted.

Been reading lots and lots of great reviews of them from over in the US and AUS, not heard one bad report then then they are made by a very reputable company after all (Kamak).

I'm going to ask a local turbo specialist to give it the once over before fitting to gauge their opinion of it, I'll report back on that too.

 

That looks awesome! Looking forward to your results!

 

Is there a turbo specialist in glasgow?

 

Is this comparable to any of the scooby clinic blouch turbo's? Or a gt30?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Turbo-TD06...item1c114ada1f

 

Very interesting thread. The kinugawa turbos were previously regarded as being very poor. Evidence shows they have listen to their critics or changed the components or manufacturing. Some good posts

 

Good thread

 

Any further updates on this one?

 

I'm having it fitted hopefully this weekend or if not then next week, just collecting all the other bits I'm having fitted/mapped in at the same time first.

 

How long did it take to turn up? I've been toying with the idea of buying one for so long! Think i'm going to try the td05 20g on my 2.0 sti.

 

20G on the 2.0 is going to be pretty laggy is it not?


It took like 8 days including a 3 day hold up at customs, trackable all the way.

Just make sure ask them not to stick the invoice on the outside of the bloody box!

They marked my package on the customs form as I requested "replacement goods - $100 value" to minimise import duty/tax which was fine but they also stuck the bloody invoice on the outside of the box on one of those clear slips, of course customs opened it and seen the £468 value so I got hit with £140 import duty, vat and handling fee.

Customs are not stupid, the box says turbocharger on it and weighs a tonne, sending it as "gift" is asking for trouble, you may get lucky as they cant check everything but better pay a little import duty/VAT than try it on for none and get stung for the lot anyway.

 

Yeah, might have a bit of lag but the kick in the back should make up for it!
Cheers for the in depth reply mate.

 

http://www.kamakdynamics.com/profile...67b15a9aa03ad9

http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/show....php?t=2355392

Seriously considering one of these

 

"Kamak is THE manufacturer of OEM MHI and IHI turbos, and Kinugawa is a sub-brand of them"

http://legacygt.com/forums/showthrea...w-207738.html?

!!!!

 

Anyone know if Paul_p1 is a member oh here? Post no 24/25 ?

http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/show....php?t=2502719

Seems laggy

 

Taken from another forum:

 

Hi there

Personally I rather buy from well known sources over here or USA,if you are believe them,then believe them,but until I will see RR graph I'm just little bit sceptical

I've seen few eBay specials 20G making nice power(in most cases more than I've expected),but seen making very low power compared to genuine counterpart

Jura

 

In Russia Kinugawa turbos are becoming to be very popular, I think the price is the answer why. Their products lineup is very wide, they now offer the billet compressor wheels, they have the twinscroll housings, and have all the sizes for most asked power ranges. The downside is that they are a bit laggy, if compare to respected turbo manufacturer products. This lag is because of the mitsu TD journal bearing they use, not because of a poor manufacturing/technology level as some people may suppose. Overall, I think Kinugawa is a great option for a budget builds.

 

How's the turbo going bud?

 

im gonna get one of these Kingawa turbos as well 20g

 

It would be nice to see some updates from the OP

 

indeed

 

Hey guys! In the middle of buying a house so my priorities have been elsewhere unfortunately! The car and turbo are still going strong! Gave it an oil change the other day and everything seems tidy on it! Still pulls strong up to the red on private roads of course!

 

Good to hear there bud, nice of you to update the thread

 

I tried a Chinese (Mainland) Super cheap 20G on my 2L for around 6 months! It performed well, not problems at all! I bought it as a "size test" for my Rebuilt 2L. I recently replaced it with a Kamak (Taiwan) Billet 20G.
The Kamak turbo is without doubt better! Much faster spool and seems to produce a heap laid more power with lower boost!
I was lucky with the el cheapo turbo. Still looked fine when removed it! But the Kamak is in another league. A really nice turbo! I would highly recommend.
Im running the Kamak Billet 7cm housing 20G on a 2L and its perfect for my daily street car!
1.4 Bar at 4000rpm with tomei headers.

 

Where'd you get that from?